Nortel Antivirus
September 2, 2009 Threat level:
(7 / 10)
Nortel Antivirus description
Nortel Antivirus is a cheap imitation of a Norton Antivirus security tool. Although Nortel Antivirus might look like Norton or try to mimic its actions, all Nortel Antivirus is actually capable of is corrupting your system. The actual goal of NortelAntivirus is to sell you its non-functional software. In order to achieve the purpose it employs various malicious techniques such as fake security scans and issuing messages warning about non-existent threats.
Nortel Antivirus usually infects the computer's that have poor protection and therefore are easily vulnerable by various malware distributed online. Nortel Antivirus is one of such applications. The best way to protect your system against these kind of parasites is obtaining a legitimate security tool. NortelAntivirus is not the program that would be able to protect your system although it might try to convince you that it is. The way to remove Nortel Antivirus from your computer is to follow the instructions provided bellow.
New processes created
mrgdll.exewox.exe
wox.exe
mrgdll.exe Learn how to remove malicious processes
New Nortel Antivirus registry entries created
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\”[RANDOM NAME]” = “C:\ProgramData\nol\wox.exe”HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\”[RANDOM NAME]” = “C:\ProgramData\nol\mrgdll.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\wox Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan your registry errors
Learn how to remove malicious registry entries
New files and directories created
C:\ProgramData\nol\mrgdll.exeC:\ProgramData\nol\wox.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\nol\wox.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\nol\mrgdll.exe Learn how to unregister malicious DLL files
How to remove Nortel Antivirus
To remove Nortel Antivirus manually you must block rogue Nortel Antivirus related websites, remove malicious processes and registry entries, unregister dlls and delete all malicious Nortel Antivirus files from your computer.
Please note: cleaning your computer is a difficult and dangerous task, manually editing registry entries and removing processes and files may cause serious damage to your system. We strongly recommend scanning your computer with one of the legitimate antispyware scanners.